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Lunaverse story. Trixie, Pokey and Raindrops investigate strange fires occuring all around Ponyville. Meanwhile, Corona unleashes one of her minion on the world to get her revenge on the Elements. Could the two events be related? ·Fizzy Orange

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The fearsome Ahuizotl finds himself without a bit to his name as his more recent failures start catching up to his wallet. His diabolical debt quickly piling around him, the villain has no choice but to do the unthinkable: find a normal job. ·Regocomics

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A dalek appears in Equestria - not just any dalek, but the one that had been corrupted by Rose Tyler's DNA. It has a choice of life as a pony, or dying, and finds that it cannot bear to die a second time. Thus begins a strange adventure... ·RainbowDoubleDash

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Trixie appears once more in Ponyville, babbling about how she is supposed to be the Element of Magic and how Celestia is the evil Tyrant Sun. Has she gone insane? Or is something larger happening? ·RainbowDoubleDash

Lyra Heartstrings, graduate of Luna's Academy of Magic, is going to have her first solo show - tonight! It's nothing major, just a few pieces for the Academy itself to play for the new student body, but with some of the most talented musicians in all of Equestria set to be there, the chances to make contacts and get her name known in the right circles is just the opportunity she's dreamed of! She just has to do a quick favor for Trixie first, and then it's off to Canterlot. Surely nothing can go wrong?

Alright, that intro was pure crazy. I'd like to say crazy awesome, but it maybe dragged on just a little too long. Still, props for being able to keep up all the flowery stuff, even if you sorta cheated by copying.

Love Lyra unintentionally suggesting some bondage play, love even more that she just goes with it anyway after the realization settled in.

And ooh, Trixie casts by 'ear' this could have some interesting potential in future fics, though I guess it also means that the books she salvages from Twilights wagon will be less use than some where hoping.

Otherwise not much to say specifically about this story yet, but I can't wait for things to start getting interesting.

Fits in well that my head canon that M!Trixie didn't get spellbooks, be it full blown dyslexia or just a different style of learning, and that embittered and inspired her to become Equestria's greatest equine to try and stave off a CM critical. YMMV on how well it worked.

I think what I'm trying to say is more like, her admission here that she's the Element of Magic, she should be able to cast spells seems at odds with her argument in Boast Busted that the Element of Magic is about more than just spells. Does being a Bearer of Magic imply superior spell-casting ability, or not?

I think the real problem is that the zebra's spell-books are so different from normal Unicorn magic. Trixie does actually know how to read magic from spell books, it's just that her learning process is backwards. Instead of reading the steps of how to cast a spell, and then putting the steps together to cast a spell, Trixie prefers to copy the casting process and then piece the steps apart. Learning spells the normal way is harder than normal for her, and zebra magic is very different and new. She's translating the complicated rituals zebras use into the kind of spells that Unicorns use. Or at least, that's my headcanon right now.

My personal take on the matter (but this is in no way meant to be a Word of God statement) is that being the Element doesn't augment anything. Trixie happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with other ponies who happened to be in the right palce at the right time. As Trixie herself said when blasting Corona, anypony could have used the Elements.

Sounds like somepony put all of her skill ranks in Bluff, Concentration and Perform, and didn't leave any for Spellcraft or Knowledge (arcana). I can see it, too - Trixie really isn't the type who cares much for studying (unlike either version of Twilight), but she obviously has a knack for magic regardless. This can only end well.

“Yeah, but she’s not as good at is as she thinks she is,” Lyra countered, as she glanced to the clock on BonBon’s kitchen wall, which showed that it was currently 11:09 AM. “I’ll get there by eleven thirty, and be an hour, tops. Then I’ll stop of here, get my stuff, and grab the one o’clock to Canterlot. Even if I miss it, there’s the three o’clock train. Plenty of time.”

Specifically, the one holding the crown. Except that Lyra is even more hideous, for her pale, fur-less flesh is apparent for all to see, rather than mercifully covered!

It's kind of fun to write a pony trying to describe a human in pony terms, or at least terms that a pony would understand. On a related note, there was originally a scene of Trixie watching the transformation go down. I cut, it, though, because I managed to make it read like something from The Thing, and it substantially changed the tone of the story towards more horror than anything, despite Lyra becoming what would, to us, look like a perfectly normal young woman. Except for hair color, but whatever.

Incidentally, the magic words are Swahili, inasmuch as anything from Google Translate can be said to be in a given language (I do not speak Swahili). I won't provide translations, though, 'cause I think it's more fun if we don't know the meaning of the magic words. And also they're kind of lame.

This is hilariffic! The description of a human through pony eyes was very amusing, and Trixie is always fun when she gets into her panicky moods. (She has more in common with Twilight than either of them would probably like to acknowledge.)

I'm looking forward to the further developments, and whether Lyra gets to Canterlot in time! (Also, curse the lack of L6-based smileys! Derpy and Trixie are not enough!)